The town of Castle Douglas is one of the most interesting places in all of Scotland and it offers some of the most exciting landmarks to be found in the Dumfries and Galloway region. What most people don't know, though, is that Castle Douglas has actually been inhabited since prehistoric times. In a nation where most of the oldest towns date back only to Roman times, Castle Douglas is most assuredly what one would call an "old" town. As such, many tourists come to the area for all of the historical relics that have been found in the area throughout the years. Most of these vacationers are history or archeology buffs. There is also, however, a large portion of yearly visitors that come to Castle Douglas simply for the beauty of Dumfries and Galloway. Castle Douglas is lucky to be located in one of the most stunning pieces of earth in the nation and the sheer awe of a Scottish horizon is perhaps best expressed right in this region.
At any rate, Castle Douglas is very old and it is likely that the beauty of the area caused the longstanding human occupation of the land. Castle Douglas was of course a vital town in the Roman era. Many Roman forts have in fact been unearthed in Castle Douglas and tourists can take a short stroll on one of the many pathways and see these ancient beauties that date back as far as 160 A.D. What is truly interesting about Castle Douglas, though, is this rather jarring fact: While it has been inhabited for countless years by countless nations, Castle Douglas as we know it is only a little over three hundred years!
Castle Douglas was officially formed in the late 1700's by a man named William Douglas. He loved nearby Carlingwark Loch and he created a "planned" town aside it that he himself was, for all intents and purposes, the ruler of. The streets and avenues were all planned in a cookie cutter fashion in the same way many other planned towns in Scotland and England were experiencing at the time. This, however, is just the infrastructure of Castle Douglas. The Castle Douglas we all know is the land that was hatched out by General Wade in the 1750's, or the land that held cottages near Threave Castle even further back. Thus, it can be difficult to come to a true consensus as to how old Castle Douglas truly is. Should its age be based on the date that Douglas the man finished his planned blueprints? Should its birth be at the moment when loosely formed clans first decided to rest alongside Carlingwark Loch? No matter what the consensus, we can all agree that cities and place names are simply monikers attached to the activities that occurred on the land so named. With that in mind, it may be surmised that no city has a real history and it is the land that has the history. Even if that is the case, we can agree that Castle Douglas, no matter what you want to call it, certainly is older than three hundred years.
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